Every accepted public quote

“The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.”

“I often feel like a character actress trapped inside the mean, aging Barbie's body.”

“The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.”

“The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.”

“Self-proclaimed saviors and other outliers come and go throughout our political history. Occasionally, they're successful; most times, they're not. But the system has rebalanced toward the b...”

“If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself and, equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be li...”

“My favorite instrument is the snare drum. In Scotland, the snare drum is very prominent in Highland bands. The Scottish style of playing is in my blood. It's a very powerful instrument, but...”

“Guilt can prevent us from setting the boundaries that would be in our best interests, and in other people's best interests.”

“I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; o...”

“Tithing is considerably less popular than words like generosity or sharing.”

“The competitive nature of most mums and dads is astounding. The fear they instil in our promising but sensitive Johnny is utterly depressing. We need a parental cultural revolution.”

“I think the 16 years that I spent in Green Bay speaks for itself.”

“I want to be remembered as the man who changed the pay scale for featherweights, who put the sparkle back in boxing after Muhammad Ali left, the man who took risks with his ring entrance, th...”

“It takes faith to find personal significance in your relationship with God rather than how much money you earn, how beautiful you look, how many toys you own, how many trophies you collect,...”

“At one point I intended to write precursor and sequel novels, about the establishment of the Web and its next evolution, but I am very unlikely to now; they would take place in a different u...”

“I try and keep up with the top 10 on iTunes.”

“I know that my mind is so A.D.D., and I want instant gratification - and photography can provide me with that - but at some point, I want to make an independent feature.”

“When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.”

“The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.”

“Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises.”

“Sometimes circumstance blinds us at first from seeing people for who they really are.”

“I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.”

“When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addi...”

“I see my job simply as helping disseminate the message of Barack Obama, working with the communications team to make sure that we're true to the ideals and the values and the programs that h...”

“My diet is mostly composed of whole-grain cereals, legumes, beans, lentils. Lots of cooked, baked, or steamed vegetables. Lots of spices like curcumin or cumin that help aid digestion. Some...”

“I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.”

“I enjoy fighting here in Japan under the regular Dream/Pride rules with the ring and the whole rules criteria.”

“If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.”

“The Parliamentary Labour Party is a crucial and very important part of the Labour party, but it is not the entirety of the Labour Party.”

“Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.”

“18th century opera is packed with emotion, but contains not a trace of kitsch. Only with the 'thees' and 'thous' of Victorian poetry does the disease begin to grow in our poetic tradition.”

“I came up at a time in the late '60s, early '70s where music was without boundaries. You'd go into a music store, and the music was in alphabetical order. I hadn't heard of that word 'genre....”

“When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine”

“I always got great respect as a bass player.”

“I never thought I'd run for president. My parents were immigrants to this country - and leader of the free world was not on the list of careers presented to me as a skinny Asian kid growing...”

“Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes; they turn, Like marigolds, toward the sunny side.”

“There's no question that O.J. Simpson had been a substitute white man in America. He had gained honorary white status. He was not viewed by many white Americans as black. He was not seen as...”

“Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and t...”

“I think the biggest backhanded criticism-compliment I get is that I'm 'good at communicating.' Which implies that you're bad at doing.”

“Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illess is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.”

“Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.”

“Strutting and preening is, in fact, the surest sign of an inferiority complex.”

“When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing.”

“If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.”

“It's... a hard thing for a director, to think you came up with a shot, something from your mind, and someone died while doing it. It's the worst thing you'll ever have to live with. It was v...”

“I lived in Chicago for a few years and got a sense of - kind of that broad-shouldered, windy, um, stern, Midwestern, warm-slash-passive aggressive, wonderful - every adjective I can think of...”

“Fads get hot in California. A good idea can come from Des Moines, but it's not going to be anything there. Then it'll hit Venice Beach or Westwood and go all around the country, back to Des...”

“I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.”